Report: Neighbors heard gunshots just minutes before Hernandez entered house

Douglas LeeJun 20, 2013 12:03 PM

Sports producer Steve Silva of Boston.com is reporting that Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez will be arrested in connection with the execution-style murder of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. Sports Illustrated is reporting the same, while the Boston Globe says no arrest is imminent.

Lloyd's body was found Monday with a gunshot wound to the back of the head in an industrial park within a mile of Hernandez's MA residence. The 27-year-old Lloyd had reportedly been dating the sister of Hernandez's baby mama.

A law enforcement official tells FOX 25 Hernandez appears to be directly tied to the homicide which is why authorities executed a search warrant at his home Tuesday night. According to the same source, Hernandez, Lloyd, and two other men were at a bar in Boston the night of the homicide, and at some point, the four men left together in a car driven by Hernandez which was confirmed by a text Lloyd sent another friend, the source says.

It is unclear where the car went or what happened during the ride, but according to the source only three men returned to Hernandez's home at the end of the night and Lloyd was not one of them.

The source also says forensic evidence places a vehicle driven by Hernandez at one of the crime scenes in this case.

Not long after Silva's tweet, Boston's Sky 5 provided live footage of one of their helicopters trailing Hernandez in his Audi SUV.

Things got even more ridiculous when Hernandez left the stadium, stopped for gas, and was swarmed by reporters who'd been following him in their own vehicles. His next stop following the fill-up was apparently his lawyer's office.

According to ABC News, Hernandez is alleged to have intentionally destroyed his cellphone and the video surveillance system in his home. Additionally, a team of house cleaners was reportedly hired to "scrub" Hernandez's home on Monday.

ABC News also reports that Hernandez and the victim partied together at a Boston nightclub on Friday night.

It was reported on Thursday night that neighbors of Hernandez's heard gunshots between 3am and 3:30am on Monday morning, and there's apparently video evidence of Hernandez and two others walking into his house only minutes later.

According to Fox 25, Hernandez was allegedly seen at Lloyd's home an hour prior to that.

Hernandez is also being sued in Florida by an acquaintance who alleges that Hernandez shot him. However, the plaintiff has not cooperated with the Palm Beach Sheriff's office, so that case currently remains closed.

some people use any chance they can get to bash on tebow. its amazing. even in a thread that has nothing to do with him. get a life.

Posted by Troy Fairclough on 2013-06-21 00:16:42

Chris Burke from SI: $5 says at least one member of the Aaron Hernandez media swarm is shouting, "WHAT'S IT LIKE TO HAVE TIM TEBOW ON YOUR TEAM?!"

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 21:53:18

Peace. Shalom. You are at least as knowlegable as I on this cae, but we reach different conclusions.Too much for this site, but I'll continue off site if you wishbradleywjd@aol.comBarry Scheck was a hero, and continues to be. F. Lee Bailey was an embarrasment.

Posted by bradley on 2013-06-20 21:23:38

I agree 100%. Nothing is going to change my mind about the case, either. I'm perfectly fine with you believing he was wrongly accused and correctly acquitted, if not exactly exonerated. He seemed to take a rather sound beating in that civil case.

I will say you seem to be in the minority opinion regarding this case, which in itself, wouldn't decrease the possibility you're ultimately correct. I just feel most people fall into three camps: those who believe he was guilty and wrongly acquitted; probably guilty, but not under a reasonable doubt; guilty and too bad, we got one this time after all the times you screwed us in the past and will again in the future. That last one was quoted nearly verbatim from a phone call I received from a friend less than ten minutes after the verdict was announced.

Ironically, OJ was payback for all the injustices suffered by blacks in the California legal system even though he spent the previous two decades deliberating distancing himself from the black community.

Maybe Barry Scheck still muddles the DNA conversation enough that an all white jury acquits. Scheck is certainly the main reason Simpson walked free for 14 years. His work enabled the defense team to rebrand a tiny shred of doubt as reasonable doubt. Good for him. The work he does with the Innocence Project is fantastic.

I thought Cochran's theatrics were pretty superfluous. He was largely preaching to the choir. Many members of that jury were looking for any excuse to acquit and a bloody glove planting racist cop more than filled the bill.

Anyway, that's as far as I feel the need to go on the subject. We are admittedly intractable in our positions and I got my fill of it all 19 years ago.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 20:43:18

Must be different where you live. I have been close to law enforcement in every major city I have lived in from DEN to east coast to LA to TX.

Most police I have dealt with do not anything to do with the press, of course there are some attention whores..

But the hard working guy/gal knows that keeping your head down and doing a good job will get the INTERNAL attention/accolades that they want.

The attention whores earn the disdain of their fellow officers.

As I said before stands from the thousands of law enforcement I've dealt with from the beat cop to the FBI.

Posted by Lonestar47 on 2013-06-20 20:33:12

True that moving the trial to downtown was a mistake, but I'd like to think that an all white jury would have also acquitted. There simply was no proof of guilt."Anyway, nothing has changed your mind in 19 years..." Look in the mirror, my friend.I'll note in passing that you have not addressed any of the points I've made, but just persist in the attitude you arrived at years ago.

Posted by bradley on 2013-06-20 20:00:21

Unfaithful wife? They'd been divorced for five years.Anyway, a perfect crime is one that no one knows has been committed. Not one that puts you behind bars for a year, with the possibility of being there fore life.

Posted by bradley on 2013-06-20 19:56:01

Disagree. Cops are very much into their self image and public image. That's where promotions come from. As well as hard work.

Posted by bradley on 2013-06-20 19:08:26

Stupid is as stupid does. And with at least 3 possible suspects, I expect the police will get 3 possible stories. I feel for LLoyd's family, as their loss is being played out in front of the world. Hopefully the truth will tell.

Posted by iamafreeman on 2013-06-20 18:57:16

ha ha lol this is gods master plan

Posted by NuggetsBlazers on 2013-06-20 17:49:19

I felt like he bought his freedom just like many other rich Americans. He also benefited from the DA Gil Garcetti moving the trial from Brentwood to Los Angeles, Garcetti thought the publicity would make his career, but it destroyed it. Finding a racially mixed jury in Los Angeles who was going to acquit a rich and famous black man of murder was simply not going to happen. Not when cops walk after raining 100s of videotaped blows on a black man's head and not after a Korean grocer was acquitted for shooting a black teenager in the back for trying to walk out with a bottle of juice.

He also benefited from the jurors having a completely distorted sense of reasonable doubt. Good job by all his attorneys.

Anyway, nothing has changed your mind in 19 years and I would sooner spend two years in prison than relive the two years that trial stole from everyone's life.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 17:38:08

What trips me out is how hard it is to get someone to drive you to the airport or help you move, but some guys are able to find friends who are willing to help them off somebody. Hernandez must be a pretty nice guy, outside of the murdering.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 17:29:46

Personally I always thought he committed the perfect crime. Killing an unfaithful wife and getting away with it.

Go figure.

Posted by Lonestar47 on 2013-06-20 17:29:33

Wow an OJ TRUTHER?! That is a first. I need to take a screenshot of this or something. What a day.

Posted by krissberg on 2013-06-20 17:10:33

Stories like this always make me think what could have been going on in his mind to think this was a good idea.

Of course, it's just a story and a rumor right now, so we'll have to wait and see.

Posted by billyricky on 2013-06-20 16:56:07

Interesting language.

Posted by billyricky on 2013-06-20 16:51:05

Well, I disagree. I never thought he was guilty of the murders, and can argue it all day long.Briefly, where's the motive? Yes, he had beaten Nicole during their marriage, but they'd gotten along fine for over five years. There was a tape of Simpson arriving at a school recital (that their daughter was playing in) earlier that afternoon that showed him in a good mood, shaking hands with Nicole's Dad and giving Nicole's sister a kiss on the cheek. Nicole invited him to join the family for dinner that evening but he declined. And if he had killed Nicole and Ron Goldman, he'd have been drenched in blood and it would have been all over his car and house. But there wasn't any.Also, the bloody glove found at the scene clearly did not fit OJ.I taped the trial every day and watched it at night.

Posted by bradley on 2013-06-20 16:45:22

Especially since he was as guilty as anybody has ever been of anything.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 16:36:08

Simpson flew back to LA when informed of the murders. Against the advice of his attorney, he went to the police station, alone, and talked to detectives and also voluntarily gave them a sample of his blood. Not suspicious behavior, IMO.As to the ride in the Bronco - consider that he was about to be taken into custody, and his lawyers would have told him he would remain there for at least a year (no bail on a murder charge) and, it things wnt th wrong way in court, he might never be a free man again. I can understand him losing it for a bit and going for the ride.

Posted by bradley on 2013-06-20 16:21:39

Depends on the method of fingerprint removal. Laser not so much. Butcher knife on the other hand ...

Posted by Steven Searls on 2013-06-20 16:14:25

Yes they do. However, assuming the report on Hernandez destroying his surveillance system and cellphone is accurate, he's looking more and more like a party to a murder, before or after the fact.

Posted by Steven Searls on 2013-06-20 16:07:45

The authorities won't be happy about him having his fingerprints surgically removed, either. That really makes a guy look suspicious, IMO. I also think it might affect him as a receiver.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 16:07:08

Keeps looking worse for Hernandez. Destroying his video surveillance system and his cellphone doesn't look good either. That merits a likely Obstruction of Justice charge.

Guess Teebs is going to get a long look at TE.

Posted by Steven Searls on 2013-06-20 16:02:50

This reminds me of the comments people made when OJ was under suspicion. He may be innocent, but he's sure behaving like a guy who's guilty of something.

Except, in some ways, this looks even more hardcore than Orenthal's brutal double homicide. Simpson's actions on the night in question, horrible as they were, could be considered crimes of passion. What happened to Lloyd was a straight up execution by people he knew.

Anyway, they can pile evidence, circumstantial or otherwise up to the sun, Hernandez is going to walk.

Posted by Yahmule on 2013-06-20 15:22:46

And Timmy is obviously already a better TE than Jake Ballard.

Posted by Nick (ncm42) on 2013-06-20 15:11:11

Or block, or run routes, or catch the ball.

Posted by SterlingMalloryArcher on 2013-06-20 14:53:29

I wonder if Hernandez took pictures of the Odin dead hence destroying the phone. Yikes. If not and he thought that destroying the phone would erase text messages, then he is dumb.

It "appears" at the very least, he is an accomplice, at worst the trigger man. He won't be slapping any attorneys butts in courts. #BigHouseBound

Posted by Orange_and_Blue on 2013-06-20 14:39:28

Does this mean the Patsies season is shot? Regardless, I hope the Broncos kill them when they play.

Posted by John Tomasik on 2013-06-20 14:28:33

Yeah, makes sense because TE's don't need to read the defense OR remember the play.

Posted by krissberg on 2013-06-20 14:11:57

most police that I know want nothing to do with cameras.. it tends to be the DA's seeking higher office that prance around in front of cameras..

Posted by Lonestar47 on 2013-06-20 14:02:27

Not enjoying the murder certainly but the media circus around the almighty Patriots (and the implications it could have on their season) is fun. Just is.

Posted by krissberg on 2013-06-20 14:00:10

So does this make Timmy the new starting tight end for the patriots?

Posted by The_Outlaw1984 on 2013-06-20 13:57:31

Yes. Nothing enjoyable about a murder, and someone accused who should still be presumed innocent.Enjoying the Patriots suffering is OK, IMO, but more because of them losing Welker than Hernandez being in the situation he's in and Gronkowski going through back surgery.

Posted by bradley on 2013-06-20 13:55:43

That's a good reminder I know we've had players arrested and charges dropped numerous times.

That being said if he is involved or guilty I hope he gets the proper sentence and his money/celebrity doesn't interfere with the witnesses and jury.